Judy Pfaff

Biography

Judy Pfaff (b. 1946, London) is a New York-based artist whose pioneering, maximal installations of dense materiality and soaring ethereal structure established her a master of contemporary site-specific work. Pfaff has continued to create intricate, expansive installations across the globe, while also working in collage, print, sculpture, and paint to explore and illuminate the infinite geometric considerations of physical space via visual and tactile presentation. Her work was included in the Whitney Biennials of 1975, 1981, and 1987. Pfaff additionally exhibited in the Venice Biennales of 1982 and 1984 and represented the United States in the 1998 Sao Paulo Bienal. Her pieces reside in the permanent collections of MOMA, Whitney Museum of Art, Tate Gallery, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. She is the recipient of many awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center (2014), the MacArthur Foundation Award (2004), and the Guggenhiem Fellowship (1983).

National Academy Award for Excellence in Sculpture, National Academy Museum and School, New York

2014

Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center

2013

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013 Class of New Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members, field of Visual and Performing Arts
Anonymous Was a Woman, A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds, New York, NY

Exhibitions

News

Judy Pfaff - × × × ÷ ÷ ÷ ☰ + + +,

July 2018

Gaa Gallery Wellfleet is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition from artist Judy Pfaff, with the symbol-based title of × × × ÷ ÷ ÷ ☰ + + +, read as X’s and Oh’s, opening on Saturday, July 7, and on view through August 11. Please join us in Wellfleet on Saturday, July 7 for an opening reception from 6 - 8pm.